{"id":215871,"date":"2023-03-10T06:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T11:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=275870"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:51:44","slug":"last-minute-earthquake-shakes-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/last-minute-earthquake-shakes-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Colombia hit by a powerful earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The forces of nature are once again having a serious effect on our planet. The <strong>Colombian Geological Service<\/strong> has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sgcol\/status\/1634122418267496451\">communicated<\/a> on its <strong>Twitter<\/strong> account that a strong earthquake has hit Colombia <strong>at 10:18 am in Spain<\/strong> (peninsular time). According to the agency, the magnitude of the earthquake was 5.9 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richter_magnitude_scale\" title=\"Richter scale\">Richter scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SismosColombiaSGC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SismosColombiaSGC<\/a> Evento S\u00edsmico &#8211; Bolet\u00edn Preliminar, 2023-03-10, 04:18 hora local. Magnitud 5.9. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoticiaEnDesarrollo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoticiaEnDesarrollo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Temblor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Temblor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sismo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sismo<\/a> \u00bfSinti\u00f3 este sismo? rep\u00f3rtelo <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ehDqPbETsf\">https:\/\/t.co\/ehDqPbETsf<\/a> M\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h4VVP0556L\">https:\/\/t.co\/h4VVP0556L<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yvxqbGeNTE\">pic.twitter.com\/yvxqbGeNTE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Servicio Geol\u00f3gico (@sgcol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sgcol\/status\/1634122418267496451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The epicenter of the earthquake was in the <strong>Mesa de los Santos<\/strong>, a plateau located in the eastern mountain range of Colombia, in the Santander massif. As its name indicates, the plateau is located in the municipality of Los Santos, which is considered <strong>the second largest seismic nest<\/strong> <strong>in the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Colombia&#8217;s National Unit for Disaster Risk Management<\/strong> (UNGRD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNGRD\/status\/1634126052325826561\">stated<\/a> on its Twitter account that the epicenter of the earthquake was 151 kilometers and had an intensity of 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/Captura-registro-sismologico-terremoto-Colombia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275893\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The earthquake took place at 4:18 p.m. in Colombia, catching thousands of Colombians sleeping at that time by surprise. The strong earthquake was felt in several regions of Colombia besides Santander, such as Antioquia, Cundinamarca and Valle, among others. At this moment, all the country&#8217;s aid agencies are assessing the damage caused by the earthquake, which <strong>has not registered any casualties so far<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In these types of events, information can be vital, and technology can save many lives. In order to <strong>be informed of any earthquake alert<\/strong> in the area where you live, we recently compiled some of the best <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/best-apps-alerts-of-earthquakes\">earthquake and seismic activity warning apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale has impacted Colombia at 4:18 p.m. So far, no victims have been registered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":215872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-215871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321786,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215871\/revisions\/321786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215871"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=215871"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=215871"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=215871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}